INCIPIT
2026 · 2m
Directed by Grégoire Dumonteaux
Genres: drama, experimental, fantasy
Tones: contemplative, mythic, surreal
Ève and Adam enjoy the Garden of Eden with laughter and amusement, as routine dictates, until the mysterious appearance of a mirror announcing a double-edged future breaks their routine.
Picked by Margot
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A mirror as narrative hinge in Eden—cute premise, but it's playing it straight when it should be playing it strange; the surreal packaging doesn't quite mask that this is just a retelling waiting to happen, and that bores me.
Dumonteaux understands how myth functions as form: the garden's routine becomes a visual rhythm, and the mirror's arrival shatters not just innocence but the film's own compositional order—it's a work aware of its place in the Genesis lineage while actively interrogating how cinema stages that fall.
The choice to make the mirror *announced* rather than simply discovered suggests a formality, an unveiling—there's probably a specific spatial or tonal decision there that transforms what could be rote Genesis cosplay into something architecturally deliberate.